Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[palexxxx]

Lovely looking car, what is it?

[ltnt]

^Looks like a 48 or 49 Oldsmobile or Chevy to me.

[palexxxx]

^ Just done some googling, does a Chevy Fleetline sound about right?

[Boon Mee]

I'd guess it's an old Oldsmobile.

[Chittychangchang]

Siamese theater group which performed in Berlin, Germany in 1900

[ltnt]

does a Chevy Fleetline sound about right?

In that era palexxxx, but the grill opening is more like the Oldsmobile look. Look at Google pic.'s under Chevy or Oldsmobile 46,47,48,49...may have some pictures that clear it up. My dad had a 49 Chevy fleetline we traveled all over the Southwest and Mountain states in. Big interiors, except when the pet dog farted or the parents smoked.

[rebbu]

[rebbu]

[rebbu]

Pulitzer-prize winning image of Korean refugees crossing a wrecked bridge



"Sometimes I get a little annoyed," says Max Desfor.
He is a former Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and has been invited by the South Korean government to take part in commemorations marking the 60th anniversary of the start of the war.
"I ask anyone who'll listen - why do they celebrate the start of the war? They celebrate the start, of course, because it's never ending - it's still going on."
The US, which backed the South, and North Korea signed a temporary truce in July 1953, but there was never a peace treaty. Technically they are still at war.
"The North Koreans invaded Korea, South Korea, and I immediately volunteered my services to the AP and said, 'I will cover that war' and my boss said, 'the war isn't going to last more than two weeks!'"

Pulitzer prize
I met Max at the Korean War Memorial on the Mall in Washington DC.
The 96-year-old has long since retired, but still carries a camera and stops to snap pictures as we talk

"By this time, the troops - the North Koreans chasing the South Koreans - they were in a position about 15 or 20 miles south of Seoul and I caught up with the troops... that was my first coverage of the Korean War."
That coverage, and in particular an image he captured of Korean refugees crossing a wrecked bridge, earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1951.
"This incredible sight I saw, with Koreans fleeing from the north bank of the Taedong River, crawling through and into and above and onto the broken-down bridge, it was like ants crawling through the girders," he said.
"They carried what little possessions they had on their heads or strapped to their shoulders, and on the north side I saw thousands more lined up waiting to do the same thing, waiting to crawl and join the rest of them."

While in Korea, Max says he always wanted to go where the action was - whether it was with US soldiers or the South Koreans - and he was free to do so.
"Embedding was not a term we used in Korea. We were not directed as to whom to go with. We were completely on our own.
"I chose to stay with troops that were on the frontline," Max said.
That freedom of movement meant he was in the right place at the right time, time and time again.
"After the Inchon landing, we started chasing the North Koreans and the Chinese military northwards.
"It was just about mid-way from Seoul to Pyonyang when I heard of a parachute jump that was going to take place... it was incredible - what an experience it is to make a parachute jump.
"As soon as I landed, I had my camera ready to shoot and I got a picture of the second wave. They were all leaving their planes and you see this flight of parachutes coming down - that's the picture I wanted."



Being so deeply entrenched with the troops sometimes meant becoming involved in the story he was covering.
Max described a picture he shot when he was travelling in convoy.
"We made a pit stop and I walked a short distance through the snow. Suddenly I saw a pair of hands sticking up through the snow, and right along side of it was a black hole.
"I pointed this out to the commanding officer of the outfit I was with and they started immediately digging it out. The man's hands were bound and that black hole, they determined, was where he breathed his last through the snow."
Max says he later learned the whole story of the man in the field.
The American soldiers dug up the area around him and discovered about 100 other bodies under the snow - men, women and children.
They had been shot and killed by fleeing North Koreans, who had panicked as UN troops closed in on them.
Max has nothing but admiration for the American soldiers he spent time with in Korea, not least because they didn't get the heroes' welcome he believes they deserved.

"The Korean War is labelled as 'the Forgotten War', and the main reason is they never got a parade when they got back, they never got relief, they never were cited for their effort for the work that was done. They were just completely forgotten."

[nidhogg]

Some of the misses:








The story behind the photo:

Shooting Film: How The Famous "Dali Atomicus" Photo Was Taken

[Boon Mee]

What a way to embark



Passengers entering the blimp R101, moored to her 200 foot tall Cardington pillar.

[Boon Mee]

Living life on the edge



Three members of crew at work on the starboard engine gantry of a Royal Navy Air Service North Sea (N.S.) type non-rigid airship during an anti-submarine patrol off the British coast circa 1918. None appear to be wearing a safety line. On the upper level the mechanic is standing next to his compartment from which he controlled the 240HP Fiat engines. On the lower level a gunner mans his gun.

[Boon Mee]

Bear With White Paw - Miniconjou 1913

[rebbu]

NVA soldier Conrad Schumann defecting to West Berlin during the wall's early days in 1961.


26 August 1961: Two women wave to their children and grandchildren in the Soviet sector of Berlin from across the Wall.


1961
Berlin Wall built
Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall–the Berlin Wall–to permanently close off access to the West. For the next 28 years, the heavily fortified Berlin Wall stood as the most tangible symbol of the Cold War–a literal “iron curtain” dividing Europe.

Berlin Wall built - Aug 15, 1961 - HISTORY.com

[Boon Mee]

The USS Yorktown lists heavily to port after being struck by Japanese bombers and torpedo planes in the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942. A destroyer stands by at right to assist as a salvage crew on the flight deck tries to right the stricken aircraft carrier.”



USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier commissioned in the United States Navy from 1937 until she was sunk at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. She was named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781 and the lead ship of the Yorktown class which was designed after lessons learned from operations with the large converted battlecruiser Lexington class and the smaller purpose-built USS Ranger (CV-4). She represented the epitome of U.S. pre-war carrier design.

At the battle of Midway, Two torpedoes struck Yorktown just below the turn of the bilge at the after end of the island structure. A fourth torpedo passed just astern of the carrier.

About a minute after Hammann sank there was an underwater explosion, possibly caused by the destroyer's depth charges going off. The blast killed many of Hammann's and a few of Yorktown's men who had been thrown into the water. The concussion battered the already-damaged carrier's hull and caused tremendous shocks that carried awayYorktown's auxiliary generator, sent numerous fixtures from the hangar deck overhead crashing to the deck below, sheared rivets in the starboard leg of the foremast, and threw men in every direction, causing broken bones and several minor injuries.

All destroyers immediately commenced searches for the enemy submarine (which escaped) and commenced rescuing men from Hammann and Yorktown. Captain Buckmaster decided to postpone further attempts at salvage until the following day.
Vireo cut the tow and doubled back to Yorktown to pick up survivors, taking on board many men of the salvage crew while picking up men from the water. The little ship endured a terrific pounding from the larger ship but nevertheless stayed alongside to carry out her rescue mission.

The second attempt at salvage was never made. Throughout the night of the 6th and into the morning of the 7th, Yorktown remained stubbornly afloat. By 05:30 on 7 June, however, the men in the ships nearby noted that the carrier's list was rapidly increasing to port. At 07:01, the ship turned over onto her port side, rolled upside-down, and sank, stern first, in 3,000 fathoms (5,500 m) of water.

[ltnt]

built USS Ranger (CV-4).

I went on board it in San Diego years ago.

[bobo746]

1915 photo of Australian soldiers playing cricket at Shell Green on the Gallipoli

[bobo746]

[Boon Mee]

The heavily damaged, burning Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu, photographed by a plane from the carrier Hosho shortly after sunrise on June 5, 1942. Hiryu sank a few hours later. Note collapsed flight deck over the forward hangar.



Hiryū (飛龍?, "Flying Dragon") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1930s. The only ship of her class, she was built to a modified Sōryū design. Her aircraft supported theJapanese invasion of French Indochina in mid-1940. During the first month of the Pacific War, she took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Wake Island. The ship supported the conquest of the Dutch East Indies in January 1942. The following month, her aircraft bombed Darwin, Australia, and continued to assist in the Dutch East Indies campaign. In April, Hiryū[at][at] '​[at]s aircraft helped sink two British heavy cruisers and several merchant ships during the Indian Ocean raid.

Hiryū and three other fleet carriers of the First Air Fleet (Kido Butai) participated in the Battle of Midway in June 1942. After bombarding American forces on the atoll, the carriers were attacked by aircraft from Midway and the carriers USS Enterprise, Hornet, and Yorktown. Dive bombers from Yorktown andEnterprise crippled Hiryū and set her afire. She was scuttled the following day after it became clear that she could not be salvaged. The loss of Hiryū and three other IJN carriers at Midway was a crucial strategic defeat for Japan and contributed significantly to the Allies' ultimate victory in the Pacific.

[billy the kid]

was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy

believe it was an English pilot who gave the Japs info on how to build one.

he got lots of jolly favours in return.

[nidhogg]

was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy

believe it was an English pilot who gave the Japs info on how to build one.

he got lots of jolly favours in return.

Any more details? Quite like to track down and read this sort of stuff, but a bit too vague at the moment...

[Latindancer]

It started a long time before WW2 :

Japan turned again to Britain, with the order of a revolutionary torpedo boat, Kotaka which was considered the first effective design of a destroyer,[30] in 1887 and with the purchase of Yoshino, built at the Armstrong works in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, the fastest cruiser in the world at the time of her launch in 1892.[30] In 1889, she ordered the Clyde-built Chiyoda, which defined the type for armored cruisers.[36]
Between 1882 and 1918, ending with the visit of the French Military Mission to Japan, the Imperial Japanese Navy stopped relying on foreign instructors altogether. In 1886, she manufactured her own prismatic powder, and in 1892 one of her officers invented a powerful explosive, the Shimose powder.[14]



But before THAT, they got the Frogs to help them :



In 1885, the leading French Navy engineer Emile Bertin was hired for four years to reinforce the Japanese Navy and to direct the construction of the arsenals of Kure and Sasebo.[30] He developed the Sanseikan class of cruisers; three units featuring a single powerful main gun, the 320 mm (13 in) Canet gun.[30] Altogether, Bertin supervised the building of more than 20 units. They helped establish the first true modern naval force of Japan. It allowed Japan to achieve mastery in the building of large units, since some of the ships were imported, and some others were built domestically at the arsenal of Yokosuka:The 320 mm (13 in) Canet gun aboard Matsushima.

• 3 cruisers: the 4,700 ton Matsushima and Itsukushima, built in France, and the Hashidate, built at Yokosuka.[31]
• 3 coastal warships of 4,278 tons.
• 2 small cruisers: the Chiyoda, a small cruiser of 2,439 tons built in Britain, and the Yaeyama, 1,800 tons, built at Yokosuka.
• 1 frigate, the 1,600 ton Takao, built at Yokosuka.[33]
• 1 destroyer: the 726 ton Chishima, built in France.
• 16 torpedo boats of 54 tons each, built in France by the Companie du Creusot in 1888, and assembled in Japan.[31]

This period also allowed Japan "to embrace the revolutionary new technologies embodied in torpedoes, torpedo-boats and mines, of which the French at the time were probably the world's best exponents".[34] Japan acquired its first torpedoes in 1884, and established a "Torpedo Training Center" at Yokosuka in 1886.[30]
These ships, ordered during the fiscal years 1885 and 1886, were the last major orders placed with France. The unexplained sinking of Unebi en route from France to Japan in December 1886, created embarrassment however.[31][35]



Finally The Hosho was built : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japane...%C5%8Dsh%C5%8D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy

[Boon Mee]

Bristol Type 192 Belvedere chopper



A Bristol Type 192 Belvedere displaying at Farnborough in 1961. Though their service life was short these twin-engine British tandem rotor helicopters served well during the Aden Emergency and later in Borneo. Just three complete airframes survive today.

[Boon Mee]

A pair of de Havilland Mosquitoes in flight, c.1942.

[VocalNeal]

^ So unpopular that Luftwaffe pilots were credited with two kills if they managed to shoot one down.